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What is the Azure Container Instance?

What is the Azure Container Instance? - Azure Tutorial

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What is the Azure Container Instance?

- [Narrator] Azure Container Instances is a fully managed service by Azure. Providing container hosting on demand. While Container Instances provide some of the basic capabilities of container orchestrators, ACI should not be considered as a lightweight container orchestrator though. Rather, ACI can be used to compliment the use of container orchestrators in the cloud. For example, virtual notes in Azure Kubernetes service use Azuer Container Instance for fast, on demand capacity. Azure Container Instance comes with a full set of features and interfaces to native Azure capabilities. First, applications hosted in Azure Container Instance cannot be deployed to Azure virtual networks, and integrated with on premises networks using side to side VPN. Azure Container Instance is also more flexible in the deployment footprint than deploying applications to virtual machines directly. While Azure virtual machines require you to pick…

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